Anatom3DFirst common palmar digital artery
Arteria digitalis palmaris communis prima · První společná dlaňová prstová tepna
Heart & arteries
Looks like
The first of the palm arteries that fan out from the superficial arch toward the finger webs, on the thumb-index side.
What it does
Splits near the web into proper digital arteries that run along the sides of the fingers next to it.
Keeping it well
Its exact layout varies between people; cuts in the palm here can injure it together with the digital nerve.
Related conditions
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- De Quervain's tenosynovitis
- Dupuytren's contracture & trigger finger
- Ganglion cyst
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Kawasaki disease
- Metabolic syndrome
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pre-eclampsia
- Pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate disease)
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Repetitive strain & overuse injury
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)